Captain Scarlett DLC For Borderlands 2 Lands Oct 16th

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You can imagine my disappointment when I heard about this. Not the unparalleled mega-classic of science fiction drama Captain Scarlet, featuring the indestructible captain of the near future, but Captain Scarlett (pictured above), featuring some kind of hook-handed lady buccaneer of the wastes. Oh well, it might still be an entertaining expansion, what with it being hi-tech happenings in the Borderlands 2 world and all. The Verge reports that Captain Scarlett and Her Pirate’s Booty “includes a new sand skiff vehicle”, and presumably a lot of guns, quests, and other B’lands DLC type stuff. It will appear next week for the attractive sum of $10.

Needless to say, I’ve posted the first part an episode of the one true Captain Scarlet below.

At first I was surprised that they might have seen an episode of Captain Scarlet (did they even broadcast it outside the UK?)… then it turned out to be entirely disappointing thing about actual pirates.

mlp/brony nonsense is very much a current fad sort of thing (something you could learn about on an accidental pass through reddit, or “know your meme”, etc). It’s not exact pushing close to “obscure nerd lore”.

When I first saw it as a kid I was like “Huh, that was pretty cool”. Watching it now I’m like “Fuckin’ hell thats amazing” as I realise how much work it would have taken and appreciating the craftsmanship that goes into it. Seriously the scale of some of their stuff is incredible.

It still holds up pretty well. It’s impressive how tense it can be at times and it can be bizarely brutal for a children’s show. Dudes getting deaded all over the place, things burniated and just some outright sass and dark humour. As a young lad it couldn’t get much better.

Yeah, one of the few shows that actually put a bit of fear into me as a child. Mainly with how untouchable the Mysterons were, like in most episodes humanity would basically make no progress at all towards defeating them. Then the disembodied voice, all their stuff being indestructible, it was awesome.

I think I was about 8 at the time, so every other show I’d ever seen involved the good guys winning and everything being fine forever by the end of the show. It blew my tiny little mind.

So not complaining (too much) here, but doesn’t that mean just out the door there is €50 of DLC already out to purchase within 4 weeks of launch? That’s a big number regardless of quality or game content isn’t it.

Considering the Season Pass runs until June next year can we expect €10 DLC to drop every month along the way? It starts out as a nice way to buy the campaign expansions cheap but doesn’t it feel like a way to keep you on the hook for each piece of content along the way?

This is part of the season’s pass- there’s at most $40 of DLC at the moment, which is season’s pass and this. If you were determined, I suppose you could buy this, then the season’s pass, then Gaige to be out $50, but that just seems silly.

It pretty much means that they are trying to get people to pay about double the price for the same game through hidden costs no less and are taking the piss, yes. That’s why I decided to not buy any games pulling any of this DLC shenanigans, they might make more money out of other people but I won’t give them any.

I might buy games like Borderlands 2 or Risen 2 when they have decided that they’re done developing the game and release the Complete Version and they’re like 5-10€ max. Others like Mass Effect 3 (despite playing the previous 2) I might entirely lose interest in.

I don’t want anything to do with that and I’m rather surprised that people are just standing there and taking it like they do, including publications like this instead of questioning these practices and raising a storm.

Why not just buy BL2 and not buy the DLC? The game is complete as released (unlike many games with day 1 DLC), and easily worth the $60. If you don’t like DLC, don’t buy it, but keep in mind that some of us like keeping a good thing going.

Because I don’t like them tricking people out of more money and don’t want to support those business models, which will only get worse as people do just that?

In the example of Borderlands 2 it’s especially egregious, they expect people to pay up to 60€/$ depending on platform for the new game, added that “Season Pass” for 30€ from the get-go on top and then went out announcing merrily that they’ll add “DLC that isn’t included in that” (wtf did people buy it for then?): link to joystiq.com adding to the probable game price for a single game of up to 110-120€ or more and at that point I tell Mr. Pitchford to go f*** himself, go spend my money on Indie games, KickStarters and games that aren’t taking me for a ride and MAY buy his game for 5-10€ instead if it is on sale with all the content included at some point.

On top of that they were already talking about Borderlands 3 to start the cycle anew (with possibly even more glorious DLC to waste your money on!): link to pcgamer.com (yeah I know it was “disclaimed” later, but really…)

I’m sorry, but BL2 is very much a complete game on it’s own without any DLC. Therefore the price of the DLC has no bearing on the worth of BL2, only on the worth of that DLC. If you haven’t noticed, these are expansion packs we’re talking about, not parts of the game that have been cut out in advance. I think the season pass is very useful and cost efficient for people who know they’re going to buy the DLC but don’t want to pay launch day price, it’s sort of a compromise between paying more earlier or waiting a long time for the GOTY.

As for the Mechromancer, I’m a bit disappointed that she isn’t part of the season pass, and she probably is a bit overpriced especially if you’ve already bought a pass.

It’s not paying double for the same game because B2 is already much bigger than B1 out of the box, and they’re not forcing you to buy the DLCs. Also I think if you compare B2 quality and amount of content it’s definitely towards the good end of the scale. How about Bulletstorms 7 hrs for $60? Smart people will have preordered B2 for £25 and will then pick up the DLCs for a 2nd play through when they’re on sale or when the GOTY edition arrives. Just forget they exist for now.

Also it’s not like if the concept of DLC didn’t exist you would be getting this content with the base game for the same price, you wouldn’t. It would be in an expansion pack in 12 months for £20 like in the old days. Did you have the same objections to expansion packs?

No, an expansion pack in 12 months or so is perfect. It’s a decent amount of time to develop content after release, so it doesn’t feel cheeky.

But more importantly, add ons were about taking what was great in the base game and building on that. Using hindsight, which this rushed out DLC doesn’t do at all. It’s usually inferior to the game itself in fact.

I don’t see how this Borderlands 2 content wasn’t already worked into the games budget. I don’t see how they could have had time to create this stuff post release. It feels like they deleted bits that weren’t up to scratch, then decided to sell them to you at a later date.

I’m really disappointed with 2K and Gearbox, I was hoping they would avoid the whole Season Pass scheme and concentrate on putting out a few quality DLC packs like they did with the the first game. Instead, they seem to be taking the opportunity to pull one over on gullible consumers. What a bummer.

No. Out the door, there is $20 of DLC released. There is $50 of DLC announced ($40 with the season pass), but that number has been known for months.

Also, the game is massive, and no one can accuse Gearbox of crippling the game on release to be “finished” by DLC. The game is full and fun in the standalone version, and these bits of content are a bonus, not a necessity.

and only 10 bucks worth of DLC for a grand total of around 45 bucks spent so far if you were smart and pre ordered it off GMG during that 25% off sale.

also i would like to add with he season pass it 40 bucks total for all the planned DLC. Add up all that content as if it were delivered as one big ass expansion and it looks a little more reasonable right? Its just instead of waiting a year or 2 for them to finish all the planned content. They are able to just release a little at a time when its ready for pretty much the same price of a full fledged expansion. How is this bad? I never thought of getting new content sooner rather than later as a bad thing.

How much content a game has will have no baring on how much DLC they throw at you. RPS hasn’t said it was Season Pass DLC, just that it was DLC (for now). I just said regardless of the games content, that isn’t being able to buy €40~50 worth of DLC in the first 4 weeks excessive and implies the Season Pass is staggered over so long to give them a way to target customers with alternative DLC also? I never meant to say the game wasn’t already big.

Thank the consoles and their glorious ‘certification’ processes for this. The main game went gold and was sent off to the overlords at Sony and MS in July. So rather than twiddle their thumbs and do nothing for 2 months, they made DLC instead.

Really? DLC really has gotten out of hand. Sure, add another class in for those who pre-ordered the game, but don’t charge $10 to buy another class, either come out with some mission DLC or just piss off.

So, is this going to be the same “$10” price as the Mechromancer DLC? That’ll be a total of $31 for two DLCs if that’s the case, and as much as I love Borderlands 2, and bought every DLC for the first Borderlands, that’s just a tad too much in my opinion.

So if anyone is interested in this but hasn’t bought the Season Pass, head over to greenmangaming.com right now. They’ve got a 25% Off Any One Thing promo running again, and it drops the BL2 Season Pass to a mere $22. Which basically means, if you were savvy and got the base game for $42 preordered, you’ll have almost the entire GOTY package for the price of the base game.

Compared to Scarlett the Thunderbirds are really frickin’ dull. So dull in fact they inspired Matt Parker and Trey Stone to make Team America as a kind of “What would this show be like if things actually happened in it?”.

What I find massively irritating is Randy Pitchford announced they’re working on even more DLC yesterday on his twitter that will not be included for season pass purchasers (link to twitter.com).
So if you didn’t preorder the game and go just through steam that means it’s $60 for the base game, $10 for the Mechromancer DLC, $30 for the season pass totaling $100 so far and this is preordering DLC which only 1 of the 4 bits promised have been announced.
Now, they’re already announcing they’re working on more DLC in addition to what people have pre paid for that hasn’t even been detailed or delivered on.
Anyone else think this is getting a bit ridiculous?